Testing OpenStack Essex on Fedora 17 continues, with the setup
instructions being kept up to date, and improved. For example, Cole Robinson updated the instructions to use OpenStack commands rather than euca2ools.

Alan Pevec made a Fedora 17 preview repo available for providing the latest openstack packages irrespective of release freeze scheduling.

Fedora 17 has currently got Essex RC1 releases of Nova, Glance, Keystone, Quantum, and Swift 1.4.8 available. With the emphasis on testing and fixing before the final release there have been subsequent upstream fixes: